Police said a member of staff checked Schaeffer's records to find Mr David Gilmour and Mr Alex Lifeson had the same address - an empty car lot.

Another member of the hospital staff flagged the patient's strange behaviour, hospital spokeswoman Jeanine Nistler told the St. Cloud Times.

She said: “There was some discussion among security staff leading people to believe that he really wasn’t David Gilmour.

“Our security supervisor pulled up the security camera shots of when this man entered the hospital and compared them to pictures on the Internet of Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour and determined he was not David Gilmour.”

RUSH: On one occasion Schaeffer is said to have posed as Alex Lifeson, above [GETTY]

Local news sources say the Minnesota man was trying to avoid a £60,000 medical bill on April 20 last year when he was arrested at St Cloud Hospital.

He was charged in July 2013 with two second-degree felony counts of communications fraud but didn’t make Tuesday’s trial.